China successfully launched a Long March 2C (CZ-2C) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0411 GMT on 29 April. The vehicle was carrying two Earth observation spacecraft, Siwie 01 and Siwie 02. These 540 kg low Earth orbit – Sun synchronous...
As part of its planetary defence strategy, China plans to launch an asteroid impactor mission to deflect the orbit of a near-Earth asteroid. The test mission, as reported by SpaceNews (Andrew Jones), will make close-up observations of a selected, potentially...
At 1655 GMT on 15 April, the Chinese astronaut-carrying Shenzhou 13 spacecraft undocked from the nadir (or Earth-facing) port of the Chinese Space Station (CSS/Tianhe 1) with Commander Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu onboard. The 182-day mission was the...
It was a busy “Good Friday” for China, which launched not one, but two rockets within hours of each other on 15 April 2022. Long March 3B-G2 (CZ-3B-G2) was the first of the two. It was successfully launched into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 1205...
At 2347 GMT on 6 April 2022, China launched a Long March 4C from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC). Aboard the launch was the Gaofen 3-03 radar satellite which was placed into a near polar sun-synchronous low Earth orbit of 744 x 738 km at an inclination of...
China successfully Launched a Long March 11 (CZ-11) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 0229 GMT on 30 March. The rocket was carrying three spacecraft, Tianping 2A, 2B and 2C, which will be used for radar calibration.
